Anna Pavord: 'Globe and Jerusalem - both artichokes but completely different vegetables'

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It's odd that the same name, artichoke, should have been given to two such completely different vegetables. The globe artichoke looks as though it has been sculpted by the builders of the Parthenon; the Jerusalem artichoke has no drama at all. Of the one, we eat the flower buds; of the other, a knobbly underground tuber. They taste entirely different, too. I won't go into the after-effects.










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